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joined:May 23, 2003
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I checked the backward links of one of my competitor's site ( ranked #1 on many keywords ), google reports the number is 12,900, but actually when I check the first 100 backward link pages by searching 'link:comperitorsite', I'm stranged that there are no any backward links point to the site on these pages. I wonder how the guy 'place' backward links on so many webpages, and how does google credit these inexistent backward links to the guy.

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joined:May 23, 2003
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I've been seeing these new backlinks about once a day for a week and thought it was a data centre out of step with the rest. Now they seem more persistent. But I wonder if they are as stable as some suggest.

What I can't fathom is why one of my sites is top in Google.co.uk and missing completely from Google.com

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What i think is funny about PR is that you get a high PR site like a news paper group for example PR8 say and you find its "contact us" section has a PR7.

I find it just amazing that Google can give a high PR to a "Contact us" page on a site. Its like saying we value the content of a contact us page on a news paper group site higher than the entire content of a webmasters site thats PR6 or under!

Obviously once you have a high PR almost any page you add will gain value.

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joined:Mar 24, 2005
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Hi Atticus, Actually I have been seeing two different sets of results for the last two weeks where I fluctuated slightly between the two. but this update that I saw, (now yesterday) is major and unfortunately for some of my search terms that were number one and two; they have disappeared. That's why I am surprised that no one else is seeing this.